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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8853973" data-attributes="member: 7030755">This gets to the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/combat-as-war-sport-or.693192/" target="_blank">Combat as War/Sport</a> debate.&nbsp; Clearly people played all sorts of ways back in the day, including munchkin brute force combat.&nbsp; But in terms of scenario design, just because a dungeon has an ogre guarding the chest doesn't mean the PCs have to fight the ogre to get to the chest.&nbsp; In fact, it's inefficient to constantly do that, because you'll run out of hit points!&nbsp; And it's not so easy to get those hit points back, and the dungeon has more encounters than would be &quot;balanced&quot; for your party's level.Wandering monsters are a good example of this: they are meant to be avoided!&nbsp;&nbsp; You don't get (much) xp for wandering monsters, and they have little to no treasure on them.&nbsp; Rather, you have to balance the rewards of exploration (searching for a secret door that may or may not be there) with the risks of exploration (wandering monsters, traps, torch going out).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8853973, member: 7030755"] This gets to the [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/combat-as-war-sport-or.693192/']Combat as War/Sport[/URL] debate. Clearly people played all sorts of ways back in the day, including munchkin brute force combat. But in terms of scenario design, just because a dungeon has an ogre guarding the chest doesn't mean the PCs have to fight the ogre to get to the chest. In fact, it's inefficient to constantly do that, because you'll run out of hit points! And it's not so easy to get those hit points back, and the dungeon has more encounters than would be "balanced" for your party's level. Wandering monsters are a good example of this: they are meant to be avoided! You don't get (much) xp for wandering monsters, and they have little to no treasure on them. Rather, you have to balance the rewards of exploration (searching for a secret door that may or may not be there) with the risks of exploration (wandering monsters, traps, torch going out). [/QUOTE]

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